Hello - this is my work. It has been misrepresented and blown out of proportion and I am quite upset about this. The asterisk means that there are many technical if's, and's, or but's of our analysis which are not explained in the news story. It means that our analysis applies to models of extra dimensions where micro-blackholes can be formed with a size less than the curvature of the additional dimensions and where the fundamental particles which make up our universe do not reside in the extra dimensions. These micro-blackholes must also exist at an energy scale which can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider. Under those, very specific, conditions our test holds. These conditions are possible within string theory, but need not be present.
Hello - this is my work. The results of the paper have been blown out of proportion all over the web, and I am quite upset about that. However, the results are honest and credible within the model they pertain to. Our statistical calculation is not an "estimate" as you claim, but is the result of a sophisticated Monte Carlo simulation of the process as it appears in the detector at the LHC. Like it or not, this is a 5 sigma measurement at the LHC.
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Hello - this is my work. It has been misrepresented and blown out of proportion and I am quite upset about this. The asterisk means that there are many technical if's, and's, or but's of our analysis which are not explained in the news story. It means that our analysis applies to models of extra dimensions where micro-blackholes can be formed with a size less than the curvature of the additional dimensions and where the fundamental particles which make up our universe do not reside in the extra dimensions. These micro-blackholes must also exist at an energy scale which can be probed at the Large Hadron Collider. Under those, very specific, conditions our test holds. These conditions are possible within string theory, but need not be present.
Hello - this is my work. The results of the paper have been blown out of proportion all over the web, and I am quite upset about that. However, the results are honest and credible within the model they pertain to. Our statistical calculation is not an "estimate" as you claim, but is the result of a sophisticated Monte Carlo simulation of the process as it appears in the detector at the LHC. Like it or not, this is a 5 sigma measurement at the LHC.